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Charles Masson, 19th century explorer, and a Roman ring

One of the fascinating aspects of detecting is that sometimes relatively mundane finds are connected with an extraordinary life. One

In search of the owner of a vervel, a trip to the land of hedgehogs is needed

This unusual find was recorded at the PAS last week as WMID-62DDD9. It’s a medieval pilgrims ampulla which contains pins.

This coin is one item from a collection built up by a detectorist. Alan Hewitt was thinking about buying the

On 29 April a news article was put up on the BBC website, the header to which read: “Delays placing

The story of the life and times of King Stephen and the coinage produced during his reign. Stephen becomes king

This War of the Roses cannonball is the only surviving artefact from the Second Battle of St Albans in 1461.

Henry becomes king Death of William II On 2 August 1100, William II was killed by an arrow whilst hunting

Every once in a while I see a detecting find posted somewhere and it catches my imagination. Has this one solved the mystery of Robin Hood

Update Last week, I published the story of a hoard of hammered gold coins found by reader, Steve Simmons and